Welcome to the homepage of the Tübingen Chair of Modern German Literature (NDL) with a focus on the 18th and 19th centuries.
Five of us research and teach German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, with some excursions into the 20th century and contemporary literature. Our systematic work and research focuses on knowledge and literature, post/colonial and gender studies, mediality and aesthetics, and memory and remembrance culture.
Following the lecture in the summer semester with responses from German studies scholars from Germany, Togo, and the US, now the sequel:
Students form the University of Tübingen are suggesting reading recommendations for the winter semester on the Momentum project's Instagram channel.
Call for Papers: Popularizing the Global
CfP for the Annual Meeting of the ASECS (American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies) April 9-11, 2026, in Philadelphia Deadline: September 22, 2025 Please submit a 250-word abstract and a short CV via the ASECS-Portal
The boom of the contract is evident interdiscursively in law, philosophy, politics and literature and culminates around 1800 in a comprehensive presence in non-juridical areas as well: Communication and intersubjectivity are conceptualized contractually, aesthetic, political and historical societies are designed by Friedrich Schiller according to the 'model of the covenant' and characters in love in Goethe's Elective Affinities dream of the contract rather than a night of love.
